News is that the Pied Crested Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus) is here and the monsoon cannot be far behind. Known as the harbinger of monsoons in the sub-continent, this migratory bird can be sighted ...

Delhi awaits the touch-down of the pied-crested cuckoo, which kept its tryst with India on May 27 last year. For, it is a sweet sound which rents the air as the bird goes pee-oo, pee-oo.

Sighting of this bird indicates that the rains are around,” he said. The cuckoo was also spotted and photographed by another wildlife photographer Sriram Reddy a week back near Shamshabad.

Bhubaneswar, June 6: Ecologists here have sighted the Pied Crested Cuckoo near Kuakhai riverbed in Balianta block on the outskirts of the city. According to Hindu mythology, the migratory bird, ...